When the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) said last year it would reduce the number of monthly board meetings from eleven a year to eight, it committed to continuing to provide the same level and frequency of information data reporting. To that end, while traditional board books will continue to be prepared for every meeting, the MTA is also launching new monthly statistical data reports on its mta.info website.

Starting today, these materials will be posted at: http://www.mta.info/mta/news/books/ for each of the MTA’s four operating agencies under the heading “Monthly Agency Data.” The data cover measures of MTA performance in areas such as ridership, finance, on-time performance and crime. They will typically go up in the middle to end of each month.